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(Singapore) October 5, 2007 – TakeMeToAsia Pte Ltd, a leading international online travel based in Singapore, launches a new travel portal, www.TakeMeToVolunteerTravel.com.
The company is a strong advocate of meaningful travel, travel that will bless both the travellers as well as the communities that it brings travellers to. This comes at a time when volunteer travel, which is known by many different names, including voluntourism, volunteer vacations, volunteer holidays or volunteer tours, where travellers incorporate volunteering at charitable organisations as a significant part of their itinerary, is growing rapidly.
TakeMeToAsia launches this service with volunteering vacations options to leading Asian destinations including Cambodia, Thailand, China, India, Philippines, Laos and Singapore, and targeting to follow that with the launch of volunteering options to other parts of Asia within the next few months, including Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and other parts of Asia.
Jaslyn Ho, spokesperson for TakeMeToAsia, shared the company’s vision and belief that Volunteer Travel would do more than just bringing economic benefit to targeted nations, but it also offers travelers a unique and meaningful travel experience in Asia.
TakeMetoVolunteerTravel.com is a one-stop Volunteer Travel Portal for travelers. Visitors to the site can find all that they need to know about volunteering, find out about different volunteer vacations options as well as exchange views with other volunteer holiday participants.
The volunteering programmes TakeMetoVolunteerTravel.com has put together for travellers include volunteering at orphanages in Thailand and Cambodia, teaching English in a rural school in China, volunteering at day care centres for the disabled in Singapore. The volunteering vacation options are able to cater to a wide range of travellers, from single young adult travelers, corporate groups incorporating volunteering as their corporate travel, school groups on overseas volunteering programmes, Christian groups on overseas humanitarian mission trips to young family groups on vacations.
TakeMeToVolunteerTravel.com is also able to bring to travellers unique volunteering offerings such as multi-destination volunteer tour programmes ranging from a week to a few months, where volunteers can to experience volunteering in more than one Asian country, with the ability to choose to combine destinations such as China, Cambodia, Thailand to Singapore. Singapore being the air hub for South East Asia means that there are a wide range of good value flight options to different parts of Asia everyday of the year. And TakeMeToAsia Pte, the owner and operator of TakeMeToVolunteerTravel.com, being a licensed full service travel agency based in Singapore, is able to offer travellers on such volunteer vacations in Asia a one-stop full service support from arranging flights, hotel, hostel or other accommodations to airport transport transfers and other land logistics needs, to the custom planning of the volunteer programme with the respective hosting charitable organisations in Asia.
For more information on Volunteer Travel, check out www.takemetovolunteertravel.com .
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